Hello everyone!! And welcome to another Monday post! I’m back on the blog today with a card that actually started out as an experiment. I purchased the complete set of Distress Oxide Inks and really wanted to play with them. I have made a couple of backgrounds and loved the results. So for today’s post I’ll show you how they look when used for watercolour.

I started by stamping the beautiful Mandala Flower in Versamark Ink onto some watercolour cardstock and heat embossed it with Detail White Embossing powder from Ranger (my new fave!).
I stamped the image towards to left side of my card panel, as I already had a plan in mind.

The colours I used were: Worn Lipstick, Wilted Violet, Spiced Marmalade, Fossilized Amber, Cracked Pistachio, Iced Spruce and Peeled Paint. I swiped a little of each colour onto a non-porous surface. Then the colouring began! I did the same technique as I use when colouring with regular Distress Inks. I load some ink onto my water brush and start where I want the darkest colour to be and work my way out.

I have to say that these are so much different than the Distress Inks we’re used to! But not in a bad way. They are thicker and more opaque with a chalky finish. The results are actually quite beautiful!

You can achieve some strong colour or very soft pastel colours. I also really like hard edges in watercolour and these are great for that too! After I finished the colouring, I cut out a portion of the image with the smallest die from the Stitched Nested Creative Rectangles Dies. I also cut this die out of some white craft foam and adhered the two together with Tombow Mono Multi Glue. I then adhered the panel onto a light grey cardbase (with which I’m obsessed with lately) with tape runner adhesive and placed the foam mounted die into its negative space. I stamped one of the sentiments from the Hello Alice stamp set.

To embellish I used some of the beautiful Crystal Clear Fusion sequins and added some Clear Wink of Stella here and there.

I hope you enjoyed today’s card!! Have a great week and see you soon!!!

I used few elements from this set and some masking to make a scene.
Firstly I stamped a girl, masked it and stamped paddle and rain drops. Also, I added amazing “Hello Friend” sentiment from the same stamp set. Just love the font combination! There is another sentiment which can be used together with hello.
Coloring on this card was done with Zigs – I used Arches cold press watercolor paper as a base and not quite satisfied with a look I got. The colors are great, but this image is quite small and Arches needs water, what make coloring challenging. Want to try coloring this image on Ranger and then will share with you.
This stamps set has other cute tiny images which could be used alone on the CAS cards and as the elements to build a scene.

Hello friends and Happy Wednesday!
Once again, amazing peony from Studio Katia Together We Bloom set. This time I embossed it in white with Versa Fine and Hero Arts white embossing powder and then watercolored it with Zigs, using pastel 041 light green and 028 pale pink. Despite delicacy and detailing of this stamp, the coloring was very easy and enjoyable. I used Ranger watercolor paper. Looks like it’s my go-to choice among all the varieties of watercolor papers on the market. To make sentiment to stand out I stamped it in Tuxedo Black ink.

I started by using the largest frame die from the The Darling Ribbon and Dotted Frames Die Set to cut a panel of white cardstock. I then took the middle die from the Elongated Dotted Hexagons to cut a “window” in the centre of this panel. To create a frame for my window, I nested the middle and the largest of those same dies, taped them together and ran them through my die cutting machine with some light grey cardstock.

I traced the opening with pencil onto my cardbase so I knew where to stamp the sentiment. The “thank you” comes from the newly released Thank You So Much Stamp Set. Using my Mini Misti, I lined up the sentiment and stamped in black ink.

To show the recipient a lot of love, I plastered the front of the card with die cut hearts using the stitched heart die from the Stitched Notebook Die Set. This helped me use up some of my scraps!

Hello friends,
Popping up to share another card with foiling technique. For this card, I used Together We Bloom Stamp Set and Therm O Web Gold Deco foil.
I embossed flowers onto a white panel with Versa mark ink and added foil with an office laminator. For the dotted edges, I used Studio KatiaDarling Ribbon and Dotted Frame die. For the sentiment, I chose SSS die and Ranger gold paper.

I’m using the new Together We Bloom stamp set. This set is beautiful!! Full of hand drawn flowers and a big, bold sentiment. I started out by stamping a couple of the flowers in Memento Tuxedo Black ink onto some white cardstock. I coloured the flowers with my ProMarkers by Windsor and Newton.

I wanted to make a shaped card and the dies from Studio Katia make this easy and fun!! I used the Stitched Nested Creative Rectangles Dies. I die cut two of the larger dies and scored one of them 1/4″ from the top. I used Scor-Tape to adhere the two panels together, and there you go, a shaped card!! I die cut one of the smaller dies in the set for my sentiment.

I fussy cut the florals and adhered them to my sentiment panel. A nice coating of Clear Wink of Stella to these images gave them an extra pop!! Now for the embellishments!! In this release there are these super cool crystals! The look like diamonds except for the pointed tip, they are flat. This makes is so easy to adhere them to your projects. And boy, do they sparkle!! Next to the Crystal Rainbow Fusion Sequins, these are my next favorite embellishments.

Hello everyone,
Today I am sharing Happy Birthday card featuring Brush Strokes, Origami Winter and Birthday Lions stamp sets. There is not mush to say about this card. I tried to experiment with Brush Strokes stamp set and made a background for my outlined present, which I stamped in Memento Tuxedo black ink. For the bright spots, I used Spiced Marmalade, Shabby Shutters and Picked Raspberry Distress inks. The sentiment came from Birthday Lion stamp set. At the end, I added a small Clear Heart Drop.